Alan Lakein
Alan Lakein | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | Johns Hopkins University Harvard Business School |
| Occupation | Author |
Alan Lakein is an American author on personal time management, including How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life which has sold over 3 million copies.
Lakein graduated from Johns Hopkins University and Harvard Business School and currently resides in Santa Cruz, California.
Lakein is credited for several quotes, including "Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste your life, or master your time and master your life." He is credited as the creator of Lakein's question: "What is the best use of my time right now?". He has also made management films and training films.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton started his autobiography, "My Life", with a reference to the book:
"When I was a young man just out of law school and eager to get on with my life, on a whim I briefly put aside my reading preference for fiction and history and bought one of those how-to books: How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life, by Alan Lakein. The book's main point was the necessity of listing short-, medium-, and long-term life goals, then categorizing them in order of their importance, with the A group being the most important, the B group next, and the C the last, then listing under each goal specific activities designed to achieve them. I still have that paperback book, now almost thirty years old. And I'm sure I have that old list somewhere buried in my papers, though I can't find it. However, I do remember the A list. I wanted to be a good man, have a good marriage and children, have good friends, make a successful political life, and write a great book."[1]
Books[edit]
- Alan Lakein, How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life (1973, New American Library, New York City; ISBN 0-451-13430-3)
- Alan Lakein, Give Me a Moment and I'll Change Your Life: Tools for Moment Management (1997 Andrews & McMeel, Kansas City, MO; ISBN 0-8362-3591-6)
- It's About Time & It's About Time (1975)
References[edit]
- ^ Clinton, Bill (2004). My Life. Knopf Publishing Group. ISBN 978-5-551-34344-8.
External links[edit]
- Works by or about Alan Lakein in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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